THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Vol. 85—No. 53 Friday, November 8,1974
KANSAN
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer JIM THOMAS
Blind man's aambit
Rick Hodges, his identity concealed by a black hood, took on 10 opponents at once yesterday afternoon in an effort to prove that he was as strong as ever.
the demonstration to raise money for the clubs trip to the International Chess Exhibition in Louisville, Ky.
By ALAN MANSAGER Assistant Campus Editor
Knight to queen four, knight to king three.
A new round of shuttle diplomacy for
Switzerland.
No, it was a chess demonstration yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union played by the University of Kansas Chess Club.
Resembling a medieval benchman in his black hood, Rick Hodges, Topeka sophomore and Chess Club president, took on 10 opponents at once and disposed of one by one with a speed that masked the traditional image of the incessant chess match.
Knight to king's bishop three . . . one game began.
"I've never played a tournament in my life," one of his opponents said.
Pawn to queen's bishop three.
In an instant Hodges had decided the most advantageous move and turned to another game that was just beginning.
Wearing a T-shirt with the words "pawn power" emblazoned on the front, Hodges moved from game to game with amazing felicity.
"Give me a break," Hodges told one opponent who snickered at one of his last moves. "I've got to go for the cheap shots." Knight to bibble three
Most of the 10 adversaries sat with frozen saws that told the deep concentration tests.
"Did I do something wrong?" one player had Hodges as he returned for his next
"I hope so," Hodges said.
Pawn to queen four.
Fingers fended chessman or hovered above them in hesitation of the next move
One player knocked his king over as he nervously sought to free himself from an attack by a mob.
"That's a pretty forceful move," Hodges said.
Bishop to bishop four.
The exhibition was staged to raise money to enable the club to attend the International Women's Conference in Louisville, his女友 said. He said there were about 39 members in the club.
The games were attended by young and old alike. Bill Tuttle, a sixth grader at Deerfield Elementary School, said he came to play for the fun of it.
Jerry Levy, Prairie Village junior, said he had been chewed for the challenge it presented.
"It's one of the few games you can play that has a true intellectual challenge," he said. "It's like bridge or go. The good bridge player will know most of the cards in each hand. The good chess player will know the moves three, four or 10 moves in advance."
Queen to knight three.
Usses, the Royal Game of Origin in organized India, in Indian and ancient forms. It was played extensively by Usses.
Randy Brungardt, Galesburg senior, said that the time limitations in a game gave a player an average of 50 moves every two hours. The games held yesterday belied
the elite in the Middle Ages. The object of the game is to capture your opponent's king,
Some chess enthusiasts say that chess is a sport and that it should be given the same recognition as other competitive sports. As the games began to disappoint the losers yesterday, a cheerleader came to cheer things up again.
Queen to bishop's pawn.
Hodges said that Bobby Fischer was the world's greatest chessplayer with a rating of 2,510. He said that any person rated above 2,400 was a grand master. Masters rate from 2,200 to 2,399, and experts are found in the 2,000 to the 2,199 range.
Brungardt said the ratings were merely based on general equations, a mathematical way of evaluating a player's rank.
One famous writer said, “There is no other game so esteemed, so profound and so venerable as chess; in the realm of play it stands alone in dignity.”
Many of the opponents of the exhibition went away strong believers of that status.
Pawn to King four
Checkmate.
KU slights libraries, two senators allege
BY DAVID OLSON Senate Reporter
In insufficient concern by University administrators has caused the current financial plight for the University libraries, according to two student senators who have filed a petition asking the administration for increased funding.
Brad Max and Scott Siebel, Olive Hall senators, have submitted a petition asking the administration for a definite commitment to increase student workers' the library hours may be increased. The change may be at Thursday's Student Senate meeting.
"The idea we tried to point out is that they (KU libraries) not only need more money, they need a continuing commitment from the University," Siebel said.
Additional money for student workers' salaries may be granted from funds left from salaries of open staff positions, benefits, and services said, and if there are no staff salaries available, student workers will be laid off. administration granted $13,000 in salary requests.
A set of proposals for increasing library hours accompanies the petition to be con-pleted by the Library Board. The report recommends the libraries open from 8 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday, and from 11 p.m. to midnight on Sunday.
The report states that an additional 12,739 hours, or $24,204 would be required to extend the hours for the fall and spring semesters.
The report also recommends 10,048 hours, or $19,001 in student wages, for general housekeeping chores at the libraries.
A total of $43,295.30 would be required to keep the libraries open in line with the proposed increase of hours, according to the report.
Max expressed confidence that the Senate would approve the measure and would send it to the House.
"I feel that a library, as much as anything
UDK posts
Applications for the positions of editor and business manager of the University Daily Kansan for the spring semester will be accepted until 5 p.m. Nov. 20 by Dana A. Leibengood, assistant dean of the School of Journalism, in 165 Flint H尖
Application forms are available now in the office of the School of Journalism, 105 Flint; the Student Senate offices, 106B Kansas Union; the office of the dean of men, 228 Strong Hall, and the office of the dean of women, 222 Strong.
else, is an indication of the academic seriousness of an institution." Max said. "The administration is not placing enough importance on the library system here."
The Kanan Board will interview candidates and select an editor and a business manager.
According to a survey recently completed by Max and Siebels, KU libraries run 15 per cent below the average of libraries sampled from universities. Therefore here are open a total of 81 hours a week.
In comparison, the survey states that libraries at the University of Colorado are open 111 hours a week, Princeton 110 hours, the University of Oklahoma 107 hours and libraries at Kansas State University are open almost 95 hours a week.
"I don't think that other people are aware of this; our universities' libraries are open a lot."
Hours of availability at libraries are directly related to the amount of funding
available, according to John Glinka, acting director of the KU library system.
"I think there is no question that we need more hours," he said. "With a cut in the budget, our first priority is public service. What gets hurt is behind the scene work and people are affected." Without doing behind the scenes work, the public service will eventually suffer."
Glinka said that in order to offer as many complete hours of availability as possible this year, Watson library closed at 8 p.m. in fall. This fall the library closes at 10 n.p.m.
The library system's current budget is $130,280. According to Glinda, $68,260 was received of the fiscal year, July 1. An additional $13,000 was granted for student salaries through the work-study program. That amount will be the year and makes planning difficult, be said.
County starts phase 1 of bridge replacement
By STEVE FRYE
By STEVE FRYE County Renorter
After Douglas County voters approved a $11.75 million bridge bond issue Tuesday, the county commission yesterday started the phase towards construction of those bridges.
Walter R. Cragan, commission chairman,
authorized Finney and Turnipseed,
engineering consultants, to provide
architectural services and designs to replace
50 rural bridges and the Kansas River
bridge in Lawrence.
Douglas County taxpayers will be charged five-and-one-half to six mills a year during a 20-year period. A mill is $1 for every $1,000 of assessed evaluation. On a mill levy at $20,000, for example, the mill levy will result in a tax increase of $110 a mill year.
The county commission must make the bridge replacement a priority project after receiving a mandate from the public, Art Huffman, of the Arts Department, the two-to-one approval of the bond issue.
Poll returns showed 14,800 votes for the bond issue and 7,314 against. A simple method of counting yields a
The commission will closely examine the design proposals, Heck said. The commission can either accept or reject the commission's proposals, I. J. Stoneback, commissioner, said.
The consulting engineers should have the proposals completed within a month, Dean Sanderson, county engineer and director of the county public works, said.
Sanderson said it was realistic to complete 10 bridges a year during the next five
years. The first two lanes of the new Kansas River bridge should be completed in two years. The entire bridge should be finished in five years.
The present two-lane Kansas River bridge will be expanded to two two-lane bridges. The southbound bridge will exit onto Vermont Street, while the northbound bridge will be located where the present bridge is.
Sanderson will decide the order in which the county will build the rural bridges. The criteria he said he would use were the geographical proximity of bridges to each other and the construction of construction bridges and whether the bridge was on a school bus route.
The county has one advantage in that the rural bridges are located in groups, Sanderson.
Even though the new bridges haven't been built yet, Sanderson predicted that they would be to be replaced in about 50 years. The concrete of the bridges will have deteriorated enough to require that the bridges be replaced.
In other business, the commissioners instructed David Berkowitz, county attorney, and Rex Johnson, sheriff, to look into allegations of fraud in county action in a special three-county drug欺
The special 10-man squad would consist of men from the Jefferson County sheriff and county attorney offices, the Douglas County sheriff and county attorney offices, the District of justice offices and the Topki and Lawrence office departments.
Hikers kick up heels find solace for souls
By SHANNON GREENE
Reporter
People today seem more than ever to want to escape the city, its pollution and pressures. A trip to the wilderness for a walk or a picnic would be just the solution for a restless soul.
Purr went backpacking last Easter for three days to the Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missouri on a trip offered by SUA. Along with another woman and four men, she spent two nights in the wilderness.
Although it rained the second night and the group was vexed by ticks, the good outweighed the bad, she said. The first day was filled with skinny-dipping in an ice pool, exploring, getting lost and wandering through an abandoned farmhouse.
"backpacking can be a really relaxing, nice break from school," Karen Purre, Greystanes, Australia, senior, said. "For freshmen, it'd be a good way to meet
Backpacking recently has gained popularity simply because of its attractive design and lightweightness.
Purre has been backpacking for four years. She said just about anybody could do it.
"You have to go to go," she said. "In mountain backpacking, any one can do it if you have the right gear."
Di EIZerega, chairman of Wilderness Discovery, has been backpacking for 10 weeks.
"Interest in backpacking is very large," DiZerega said. "More people want to get
outside and away from Lawrence. They come back with a more enjoyable outlook."
In spring 1972, Wilderness Discovery came under SUA's jurisdiction because money became available to the group. With a $50 gift, it bought cooking equipment and a stove. When the Sonny and Cher Homecoming concert sold out last year, the group received $1,000 from the profits. The first two groups of first aid equipment were then purchased for the group. Groups and individuals now may rent this equipment for minimal fees.
The Wilderness Discovery program started from the Backpacking and Mountaineering Club, DZerga said. People needed equipment but couldn't afford to buy cooperative was formed in which people with equipment agreed to lend it to others.
DiZeгаza discussed the possibility of a winter survival excursion in Colorado later this year. If she would be directed by Michael Covington, instructor at "Fantasy Ridge Alpineism," a climbing school at Estes Park. Instruction would take place across cross country skiing and winter climbing.
One of the goals of Wilderness Discovery is to introduce people to backpacking, Dizegera said. They learn to choose the best gear, packs and equipment for a trip. he said.
DZerega said there also was some discussion about a city-wide information center available to backpackers, visitors and campers. The center would list places
See HIKERS Page 10
Quartet opens ears
Cary Smith, Topeka High School senior, learned her lesson well yesterday as she listened to Raymond Stuhl, professor of strings, during a break in the school's orchestra rehearsal. Stuhl, a member of the University Faculty String Quartet, was
filling in for an absent student and earned the praise of the conductor as the best cellist ever to play with the group. Yesterday's workshop was one of several programs planned by the School of Fine Arts. See story p. 7.
By Kanaan Photographer JAN SEYMOUR